Tree-prop bracket



'A. B. AMENT 85 M. H. EVANS.

'(No Model.)

TREE PROP BRACKET.

Patented Apr. 5, 1898.

attozwzq I -is a longitudinal section.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

' ANSON B. AMENT AND MARCELLUS H. EVANS, OF RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA.

TREE-PROP BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 601,697, dated April5, 1898.

Application filed April 24, 1897.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ANSON B. AMENT and MARCELLUS H. EVANS, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Riverside, in the county of Riverside andState of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Tree-Prop Brackets; and we do declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

Our invention relates to improvements in tree-prop brackets; and theobject is to provide a simple, effective, and durable device of thiskind.

To this end the invention consists in the construction, combination, andarrangement of the device, as will be hereinafter more fully described,and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate thesame parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved tree-bracket as itappears adjusted to the prop. Fig. 2 is a top plan view. Fig. 3

Fig. 4 is a transverse section, and Fig. 5 is a modification of thesame.

1 represents a plate formed with an orifice 2, having parallel edges 33, the contiguous parallel ends of which are turned upwardly to form theconverging ears 4: 4, and the rear, end of this orifice 2 terminates ina semicircular edge 5.

The forward end 7 of the plate 1 is turned downwardly to extend a shortdistance par- Serial No. 633,731. (No model.)

allel with the vertical face of the prop, and its contiguous side isprovided with two or more laterally-projecting teeth 12 12, which engagetheface of the prop to prevent the bracket slipping downward.

9 represents an integral convex-faced arm which engages the limb orbough of the tree to support it when weighted with fruit.

In the modification we have shown the bracket formed of a single pieceof wire, the ends of which are formed with teeth 10 10, which engage thecontiguous face of the prop, as in the first-instance. Although we havespecifically described the construction and relative arrangement of theseveral elements of our invention, we do not desire to be confined tothe same,'as such changes or modifications may be made as clearly fallwithin the scope of our invention without departing from the spiritthereof.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patcut, is

A tree-prop bracket comprising the plate 1 provided with theapproximately rectangular orifice 2, the converging ears 4 4 andsemicircular edge 5, the lateral projecting teeth 12 12, and theintegral convex-faced arm 9, substantially as shown and described.

i In testimony whereof we hereunto affix our signatures in presence oftwo witnesses.

ANSON B. AMENT. MARCELLUS H. EVANS.

Witnesses:

EMMA G. EVANS, EMMA Louis.

